In memory of the 100th anniversary of Professor Wei-zang CHIEN

(October 9, 1912-July 30, 2010)October 9 of this year is the 100th anniversary of Professor Wei-zang CHIEN, who was the founder of our journal Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.Professor CHIEN has been one of the most outstanding and world renowned scientists in applied mathematics and mechanics.     

上海市力学学会60年

上海市力学学会成立于1959年9月20日,到今年正好是一个甲子．60个春秋真实写照了上海市力学学会的建立、成长、发展与壮大的过程．60年来,在上海市科协的领导和中国力学学会的指导下,在各团体成员单位的大力支持下,上海市力学学会一代代力学工作者薪火相传、开拓耕耘,历届理事会及下属工作委员会和专业委员会团结奋进、不断创新,广大会员踊跃参与,为上海力学大力发展、力学人才精心培养、力学知识科学普及、力学服务国家发展战略和区域经济建设中做出了重要贡献,学会持续发展壮大．在庆祝力学学会成立六十周年之际,让我们共同抒怀上海力学六十年薪火相传、回顾近10年重要发展,展望上海力学新时代．     

Optimal control of the heating of inhomogeneous bodies under strength constraints

Institute of Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, L'vov. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 27, No. 9, pp. 34–39, September, 1991.     

Preface to the Special Issue in Celebration of Professor Shouwen Yu’s 70th Birthday

Shouwen Yu,emeritus Professor of Applied Mechanics at Tsinghua University,was born on May 4,1939 in Xianyou County,Fujian Province of China.From 1955 to 1958,he studied as an undergraduate     

Effect of rotation on the electrogasdynamic characteristics of flow in a cylindrical channel

Scientific Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 634050 Tomsk. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, No. 2, pp. 3–7, March–April, 1995     

Numerical investigation of flow over a two-dimensional square cylinder with a synthetic jet generated by a bi-frequency signal

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - The flow around a square cylinder with a synthetic jet positioned at the rear surface is numerically investigated with the unsteady Reynolds-averaged...     

Summary of the 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves

The 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW24) was held at the Beijing Friendship Hotel from July 11 to July 16, 2004, in Beijing, China, after a one-year delay due to the SARS outbreak in Beijing shortly before the Symposiums originally scheduled date in 2003. The event achieved success due to the continuous support and kind understanding from all the delegates and the International Advisory Committee. During the last three years, I have communicated constantly with so many people who encouraged me by providing their suggestions and advice whenever I was in need, from which I feel a sense of community: the community being full of friendship and understanding. It is very heart-warming to have such an experience and I am very happy to have served as chairman of the Symposium for such a community. On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee I would like to thank all of you for the contributions and help that you have given us, without which we would not have had the Symposium.After the announcement of the ISSW24 was sent out, the response from the international shock wave research community was very encouraging. A total of 460 abstracts were submitted to the ISSW24. Each of the abstracts was evaluated by three members of the Scientific Review Committee and the decision on acceptance was made based on the reviewers reports. 195 oral papers, including nine plenary lectures, were accepted to be presented in three parallel sessions, and 135 poster papers in three dedicated poster sessions. Topics discussed in these papers cover all aspects of shock wave research. Among the topics, supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics; shock wave reflection, diffraction and focusing; and detonation phenomena and pulse detonation engines were the most popular. Such topics not only include interesting fundamental shock wave physics, but also have important application backgrounds. The plenary lectures of the ISSW24 were selected based on the recommendations from all the IAC members, and review the state of the art of the recent shock wave research. It was also found that a good number of papers were the result of international research collaboration. These facts have demonstrated that the ISSW24 is really international and scientific, and that shock wave research becomes an important research field of continuously increasing interest.The final programme consisted of eight plenary lectures, 123 oral papers and 75 poster papers. The total number is much smaller than that originally accepted due to the change of date, and even though this was chosen carefully, it still overlapped with other conferences, for example, the 24th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics from July 10-14, 2004. There were 233 participants registered at ISSW24 from 20 countries and regions: Australia 9, Canada 11, China 58, France 8, Germany 14, India 21, Iran 1, Israel 7, Japan 57, Korea 2, Morocco 1, Netherlands 2, Norway 2, Russia 8, Singapore 3, South Africa 4, Chinese Taiwan 2, Thailand 1, UK 7, and USA 15.The Proceedings is a valuable resource because it brings the recent information of shock wave research together in one place, acts as an introduction to many researchers and students, and serves as a tool for promotion of the ISSW. This is the reason why the Local Organizing Committee works hard to manage to publish it. Two hundred and six papers in total are published in the final proceedings and are organized in such a way that all the papers relating to similar topics are grouped together. Both oral and poster papers are considered to be equal without making any distinction between them. The Proceedings are more comprehensive than the CD-ROM that all the participants received during the Symposium, which only contains the full papers that were received before June 15, 2004, and was intended as a tool for the prompt exchange of research information.The ISSW24 was delayed one year because of the SARS outbreak in Beijing last year. In keeping with the pattern set at the ISSW over the last 40 years, the International Advisory Committee of the ISSW24 has decided that the ISSW25 will be held in the year 2005. The organizer of the ISSW25 has been chosen by voting of all the IAC members at the end of the year 2002 to gain more time for the next organizer. Prof. K. P. J. Reddy from Indian Institute of Science has been selected to be the Chairman of the ISSW25. I sincerely express my congratulations to him and wish ISSW25 a success.We were greatly assisted in planning the ISSW24 by continuous support from various sponsors: the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Nature Sciences Foundation of China, the Chinese Society of Shock Waves, the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the Chinese Society of Aerodynamics. On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee, I would like thank all members of the International Advisory Committee for their guidance and suggestions, and the Scientific Review Committee for their careful and efficient evaluation of the abstracts. My greatest thanks have to be to the delegates for providing high quality papers and actively participating in the Symposium. For editorial assistance, I wish to thank Dr. C. Wang for re-editing all the papers according to the required style of the ISSW24, and for compiling these proceedings. I must also thank Miss Q. Pu and X. Wang, my secretaries, for taking care of so many details in organizing the Symposium. Many thanks also go to the staff and students of the Key Laboratory of High Temperature Gas Dynamics, the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences for helping and supporting me over the past three years. Finally, I want to express my appreciation to Dr. Chris Caron from Springer-Verlag for his kind cooperation in publishing these proceedings.Received: 30 November 2004, Accepted: 30 November 2004, Published online: 24 February 2005[/PUBLISHED]Zonglin Jiang: Chairman of the ISS24Correspondence to: Zonglin Jiang     

Effects of temperature change on the rheological property of modified multiwall carbon nanotubes

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - Solvent-free nanofluids hold promise for many technologically significant applications. The liquid-like behavior, a typical rheological property of solvent-free...     

Propagation of combined longitudinal and torsional stress waves in a functionally graded thin-walled tube

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - An analytical model for the propagation of combined stress waves in a functionally graded thin-walled tube subjected to combined longitudinal and torsional...     

Application of the homopoty analysis method to nonlinear characteristics of a piezoelectric semiconductor fiber

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - Based on the nonlinear constitutive equation, a piezoelectric semiconductor (PSC) fiber under axial loads and Ohmic contact boundary conditions is investigated....     

Bandgaps and vibration isolation of local resonance sandwich-like plate with simply supported overhanging beam

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - The concept of local resonance phononic crystals proposed in recent years provides a new chance for theoretical and technical breakthroughs in the structural...     

Clamped-end effect on static detection signals of DNA-microcantilever

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - Boundary constraint induced inhomogeneous effects are important for mechanical responses of nano/micro-devices. For microcantilever sensors, the clamped-end...     

Characteristic analysis of mechanical thermal coupling model for bearing rotor system of high-speed train

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - Based on Newton’s second law and the thermal network method, a mechanical thermal coupling model of the bearing rotor system of high-speed trains is...     

New insight into the stability and dynamics of fluid-conveying supported pipes with small geometric imperfections

正Kun ZHOU1,2, Qiao NI1,2, Wei CHEN1,2, Huliang DAI1,2,3,Zerui PENG1,2,, Lin WANG1,2,     

Optimization of heat transfer in the thermal Marangoni convective flow of a hybrid nanomaterial with sensitivity analysis

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - The heat transfer rate of the thermal Marangoni convective flow of a hybrid nanomaterial is optimized by using the response surface methodology (RSM). The...     

Reiner-Rivlin nanomaterial heat transfer over a rotating disk with distinct heat source and multiple slip effects

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - The thermodynamic features of the Reiner-Rivlin nanoliquid flow induced by a spinning disk are analyzed numerically. The non-homogeneous two-phase nanofluid...     

Static response of functionally graded multilayered two-dimensional quasicrystal plates with mixed boundary conditions

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - The unusual properties of quasicrystals (QCs) have attracted tremendous attention from researchers. In this paper, a semi-analytical solution is presented for...     

Nonlinear vibration analysis of pipeline considering the effects of soft nonlinear clamp

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - Soft nonlinear support is a major engineering project, but there are few relevant studies. In this paper, a dynamic pipeline model with soft nonlinear supports...     

Coupling effects between elastic and electromagnetic fields from the perspective of conservation of energy

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - Coupling effects among different physical fields reflect the conversion of energies from one field into another substantially. For simple physical processes,...     

An elementary proof for the representation theorem of analytic isotropic tensor functions of a second-order tensor

正following Cayley-Hamilton theorem:(1)where I1, I2, and I3denote the first, second, and third principal invariants of and N-dimensional space,(2)